(05-27-2021, 11:25 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: Outside of a few, most of the national people I follow are still not counting the Clippers out of this series, and most are still viewing the series through the lens of "when will the Clippers start playing?"
That take doesn't quite makes sense to me.
I can understand "when are the Mavs' shooters going to cool off", or "when are the Clippers going to figure some things out defensively", or "when is Lue going to try something different", or "when are the Clippers going to try to bully the Mavs a bit like they did last year", or "when are they going to try going small", but not "when are they going to start playing".
They scored over 70 points in the first half of the last game and were scrambling around on defense like crazy. The Mavs withstood their effort, their playing, and punched back.
I don't normally quote Mark Cuban in order to make a basektball point, but one time he was on that awful Skip and Scream'n A show and he called them out for blaming everything on effort. "LeBron didn't have the intensity in 2011...". Cuban told them that they blamed everything on intensity or effort because they didn't understand what was going on schematically. I think Mark was actually right about that!
"When are the Clippers going to start plaing?" It's just talk, not actually basekteball talk.